On 16 September 2010 17:49, Robin Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:
> Those are very weak arguments: social impact... cultural connections... > We live in a world of competition between open source and proprietary > software. This competition has blossomed into products like Firefox or > Windows 7. When we /a priori/ exclude one or the other we will miss the > chance of using the really best software. I'm disappointed to see > Wikimedia being trapped in it's own philosophy. > Given this situation the only alternative we have is to actively let > somebody program the requested feature or to wait until somebody does it > spontaneously. Both ways it may take years to have a satisfactory result. Wikimedia tends to choose "unambiguously free" over "expedient" every time, so it's not clear why an exception would be made in this case. There are exceptions. I believe we used Java before it was entirely free software, and our image server was Solaris 10 for a while though I believe that's changing. If you really think you can put a case as to why this should go through, you could argue it on wikitech-l. I don't like your chances, but it's possible. - d. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
